THE SIGNATURE “GUSTAVO BARROSO”: EXAM OF THE NARRATIVE DISCOURSE PRESENT IN IDEIAS E PALAVRAS, A RONDA DOS SÉCULOS AND OS PROTOCOLOS DOS SÁBIOS DE SIÃO (1917-1936)
Gustavo Barroso; Narrative Discourse; The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
This Study aims discuss the process of autonomy of signature “Gustavo Barroso” with the exam of the Narrative discourse present in Ideias e Palavras, A Ronda dos Séculos and Os Protocolos dos Sábios de Sião, books published by intellectual Brazilian Gustavo Adolfo Dodt Luiz Guilherme da Cunha Barroso between 1917 and 1936. We defend the idea that Os Protocolos dos Sábios de Sião [The Protocols of the Elders of Zion] constitute a new text, not simply a translation of French version. . In this sense, we are based on the texts of the New Political History, the history of the national space and the Political Religion, in order to understand how this signature builds on the thesis of the Jewish imperialism and the affirmation of Brazilian nationality, in view of the production of narrative discourse against the Jews. In this respect, we use as a methodological reference the books Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (1990) and Paratexts: Thresholds of interpretation (2001), by Gérard Genette, and dedicate a chapter of the dissertation for each work. In the first chapter, we characterize the narrative discourse of Ideias e Palavras, showing how the dubiousness of the signature "João do Norte (Gustavo Barroso)" makes explicit a positive appreciation of the Jews. In the second chapter, we characterized the narrative discourse of A Ronda dos Séculos, thinking about the autonomy of the signature and the process of negativation of the Jews. In the third chapter, we analyze the narrative discourse of Os Protocolos dos Sábios de Sião and we discuss that signature "Gustavo Barroso" and Anti-semitism. We demonstrate the continuity of the international scale as spatial and temporal comprehension, the description of physical environments as a presupposition of the psychology of the characters, the insertion of birds as a mark of the cleavages in the narrative, the appearance of war as a historical constant, citation of Jews to discuss the Jews and the understanding of human nature as tending to destruction.